Dan Mayer's Blog

This is truely an amazing addition to our videos section. It is the first in a series of dumb acts that should be getting posted in the next couple weeks. In this we shoot Scott in the back with like 25 paintballs leaving huge wells. Take a Look at scott getting shot

If this doesn't amuse you i believe you have big problems. Peace out for now. I have to work more on a paper.

Tommorrow i have my last day of summer school. I have finals and such. Once i am done with that i have a nice long weekend to enjoy before returning to work. Something while not all bad still doesn't leave much time for a break in life. I guess i need some time off. I am about to get some. I will be vacationing to mexico for a little while and that is about all i can think of. I guess i am young and not working to hard yet anyways right? yeah right. hehe

Today in the art muesem i was shown yet again how different people art. We had to write about our favorite peices in the museam and there was a girl that i generally respect writting about what i considered to be the worst piece in the gallery. Funny there was alot of people writting about things i considered sub par art. Oh well. hehe I am sure some people would have thought what i wrote about was absolute trash (like your mother).

i like drinking my water from a beer mug. I dont like beer but i like the idea of drinking. So when i drink my water i feel extra relaxed like i am enjoying a nice cold drink on a hot summer day. When i am actually working on a 8 page paper with water. Yeah water in the beer mug. I solute you!

Alright my life has slowly been turning into my worst nightmare. I had one basic fear for the summer. That at some point all my primary entertainment contacts would have most of their blood sucked out of them. It started long ago so i must start at the beginning.

The first to fall to a feminine friend was Matt. This wasn't as large of blow due to the fact that Matt lives in fort Collins and everyone else was single at the time. (Also Matt had a girlfriend that owned him in high school so i was used to him disappearing.)

The second to fall was Jesse who was my other ft Collins friend. Since they are 1 hour away they are my friends to hang out with if all my people in boulder sell me out. So now my concert was what if i loose my primary two entertainers in Boulder, because now my back ups were gone.

This moves on to Scott who was quickly on the tales of Jesse, actually probably started developing first but not leading to a full blown attachment until a little later. This took out one of my roommates. Leaving me with one primary entertainment provider left.

Lastly Dom recently fell. He fell as he usually does hard and fast. He like many people is only about 35% as cool when he is in a relationship. Comments that used to be, "Yeah lets party, it's summer!" turn into, "You guys are drinking again?"

It would be really easy to hate things like mesquites if they sucked life out of my friends. It is much more difficult to get angry when all of the girls are genuinely nice. They are all friendly and fun people that i enjoy chatting with. This leads me to little or no solution.

So my worst fear has come true and now i need to come up with a clever solution. I have a few options that i am currently considering.

1) Dress up as one of the girlfriends that couldn't hang out that night. Show up and pretend to be girlfriend.
2) Send girlfriends on cruise enjoy 1 week of fun and hilarity.
3) Find myself a female companion. (working on it she called tonight)
4) Create new primary entertainment contacts
5) Cover myself in Jelly. JELLY!!!

In a serious note your life does really change when all your friends get in serious relationships. Suddenly there are new responsibilities. Less time to just do whatever. Less drinking buddies. Restrictions on use of house equipment. (ala if a couple is in the hot tub you don't join, if a couple is watching a movie on the projector you don't join. Nor do you watch a movie on a small screen because that sucks.) So for the time being I will have to be friendly with the alien invaders into my little world of wild and crazy things.

Kraft Foods has said it would rethink some product lines and introduce steps to help fight the worldwide problem of obesity.

Brownell, the Yale professor, said Kraft was probably hoping to imitate McDonald's, which has often cast itself as a leader among fast-food outlets when it comes to the environment and animal welfare.

I didn't really know that McDonalds was a leader for the enviroment and animal welfare. I have a hard time believing it. I guess i am going to have to dig around for some news on this.... Seriously McPieceOfShit did something good?

Every time school ends i get the running from school, "SCHOOOOL's out for summer, SCHOOOOLS out for EVER!" in my head. The thing is it isn't out for summer because i was taking courses during summer. It isn't out for ever because i have like a month and 2 weeks before school begins. So while dazed and confused is awesome for making me have a end of school theme song. It isn't that highly accurate especially in this case.

So where did i run to after classes? Well to a bar that most of my art class had gone, and after arriving at 4 I tried walking home at 9:30. It was honestly a really fun time. I got to really talk and get to know some people in my class better. I got to chill with our teacher drinking margaritas and get a better feeling for her thoughts on education. I got to meet some single girlfriends of some girls in my class. All and all a fun time So what do we mean sorta walked home?

I had a drink as part of my performance art piece in class. Then sitting in the sun having frozen margaritas was awesome. But sun and Tequila make for a highly booze filled head. I had left all my stuff in the art room since i thought we would only all stay at the bar together until like 5:30 or 6. I stumbled back to the art room and found the whole building locked. By this point i had realized that i wouldn't be walking all the way home and called Sarah and Carolyn. They were coming to pick me up at the art building. In my drunken state i decided they were the get away car and i need my stuff and the stuff i borrowed from friends back before the long weekend. So i kicked one of the old creaky loose hinged doors open. I ran in got all my stuff and ran out of the building. I ran about 200 ft away to where my getaway car was supposed to meet me and then waited.

When your counting on someone to get away from the scene of the crime two things must be done.

1) They must know they are a get away driver so they can get there on time.
2) They can't be girls trying to pick out a swim suit.

So standing with in view of the building i just broke into i had to wait for like 20 mins and call them again seeing as they hadn't left their house yet and were trying to pick out swim suits. Arggg. Oh well they grabbed me, I got away with it. We went home and found another friend waiting and proceeded to use and abuse our hot tub, alcohol, and munchies.

Not a bad way to celebrate freedom from school and tests.

Yesterday was July 4th. It was awesome. I ran all over helping friends shopping for their BBQ/party. Then i went to the BBQ and partied. I met a bunch of new people. I ran into some people that have been to our parties. Including a guy named Jimbo, who was a our party when it got busted by the cops last year. He grabbed a full keg and threw it in the closet and hid it so all the cops took was our empty keg. Anyways it was a good time There was fireworks and a ice luge. That is a big block of ice with tracks cut into it to take shots out of. That always makes it a little more exciting.

Well today i started preparing for Mexico. I got my hair cut and i naired my chest. I prefer to call nair blue burning of death. It isn't bad at all until you get it on your nipples (which happens every time). Once it is on your nipples it proceeds to burn as if a flame thrower was shooting only at the nipples. Washing the substance off then feels like using sand paper on your nipples. Also the shower following the whole experience sounds like a good idea until the cool water hits your nipples and it feels like millions of tiny shards of glass are being shot through your nipples. I am doing this now so i will have some chest hair in Mexico but not look like some sort of ocean bear that is attacking the beaches. Now nair is all fine in good, until you look down at the end of the process and your unshapely stomach with no hair looks like nothing but a big pile or lump of lard. So now i have a little less hair, feel like more of a fat ass, and have extreme pain around the nippular area. That is what i call a productive day.

You can't just take a break from life or you might just miss the whole thing.

I am pretty sure i just made that quote tonight. I am sure there is something similar but it has it all right.

I was taking an entire day for myself. I was enjoying and slowing it down so much in the afternoon i said i would take the entire next afternoon off as well. That changed as i was invited to multiple parties i turned down tonight, a friend dropping by that i turned away in order to take time alone, then my best buds calling in saying in the morning they wanted to see in down at the water park at nine in the morning. I guess i feel such a big huge urrrgg to be there to prove that i am getting out there. I am going for every oppertunity. Never shrinking or hidding away. But does that mean i can't ever just take a break for a day or two? I think it might, but i don't know i want to go for it all. Never fail, live the life and just keep on going. So can you party like a rockstar, cause i'm trying!

Yeah when i am bored things get a little crazy. hehe I shouldn't have gotten quite as bored as i did during a hour yesterday. Well when i was that bored i decided i had to do something stupid to entertain myself. So i wrote a message on my ass that read, "Dom's Dinner." Then i layed in front on the bathroom until he came out. So he was confronted with my ass while i took pictures. It was a wonderfully fun waste of time. Yeah I know i am much like a 4 year old. At least i usually have things to keep myself occupied hehe.

I added a ton of videos to the website today. I also added a bunch of papers and poems I have written. So go check them out.

Some of the best videos just added were golf, in which we drive golf balls at each other. Whipper snappers, where we throw whipper snappers at each other. Then tons of funny commercial that i found around and sent in from this guy named don who sends us funny video clips to put on the web.

Since who knows who will look here is one of the poems i added:

We have to discard the past

although it keeps a grip

dust falls on thorns

as if it would crash unwittingly

There is nothing, there was always what we were, we are not.

It all has to be filled

Memories mean nothing.

Ahhh I returned to work for the first time today. I had a meeting most of the day that was very exciting and highly entertaining. Then i went to the office did some reading and reviewed a bunch of children's games. reviewing games will be fun for about and hour and then horrible each and every day. I did how ever learn that i will still get to be working on some cool artifical intelegence stuff at work. I am excited about that. I am not so excited about the tons and tons of time in front of a computer again instead of trying to hit on girls from my various classes. So now I will have to make some mad money and do something cool and fun. I am starting to get excited about the mexico trip coming up on the 12th. That should be really cool and fun.

Also Dom's girlfriend left town and doesn't get back until we are in mexico so it will be like 2 weeks of having Dom as a friend and roommate back again. That is kinda exciting. Here is to hoping he isn't just moppie and waiting around for Vicki to get back. hehe peace out.

Some things in life i will never get. One thing is why i can't see sound waves, another is anything involving women.

This doesn't even directly relate to women. I dont know maybe it does. I got numbers during my classes from 3 different girls i am kind of interested in. I am freaking out and don't even want to call them. I mean i want to be in a relationship, but i am so afraid of fucking things up i dont even want to try. It is like a mini victory to get their numbers and know they are sort of interested. It would just be dumb to call because then i will do something and they will loose interest.

So I did call one of the girls today. (Not the one i am really into, because she really scares me) I called and no one answered, so of course i left no message and didn't call back later in the evening. No i just decided that i had already tried hard enough for the day. Before i even date girls i give up on them. I mean one i think is to out of my league, one lives in Denver (to far), and one is going to ft fun next semester (why start if she is going, like 1 hour away). I find reasons that we shouldn't be together before we even have a relationship. Seems to like to party allot perhaps she doesn't have much more to her. I party allot and there is tons more to me and i purposely show off my party side so i don't come off as a boring engineer. I have a reason for each of the girls.

On a lighter note Dom and I were hanging out at a mall today (yeah i know a mall, but i loved Mallrats so screw off) and we were staring (ok gawking) at the victory secrets poster and two girls just walked by and said, "Jesus, are you guys alright." It was hilarious we were so busted while daydreaming of this model. We actually were discussing how she had some of the most beautiful eyes we have ever seen. Oh well so they thought we were pigs. They were probably right.

Just in case anyone was starting to think i was a good guy with no flaws (ha) I am posting my current desktop.

I recently received an e-mail from someone that shall remain nameless (namely due to the fact I am pretty sure you all know who it is. hehe). I received an attack on a post i made awhile ago about evolution and allergies. So now i shall attack him and his worthless thoughts in a public forum... hehe

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One thing I wanted to respond to one of your blogs
about how you don't believe in evolution because of your allergies. Hehe
just remember we stopped evolution a long time ago and allergies are
largely caused by our turboclean lifestyle of antibacterial soaps, etc.
There really wasn't any asthma or allergies 50-100 years ago. Then again,
they also had polio and smallpox, so that sucked. Eat dirty shit,
motherfucker, or don't spread your weak genes into the gene pool. Just
remember, there are only 3 statements to evolution. If you don't believe in
it, you should tell us which statement is false

1. Children resemble their parents
2. Some traits are more useful in a survival sense than others
3. organisms that survive longer have more children on average

Yeah go back to hell you religious fuck with your creationism. All hail
evolution theory!
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So much to fight about where to start?

>3. organisms that survive longer have more children on average

I will fight this with the fact that i think dumb white trash has many more children on average now than intelligent people. This is for many reasons but some of the reasons are: Smart people are concerned with overpopulation, Women in educated families tend to have careers also and don't want to pop out kids starting at 16 and ending at 30, higher educated families are better with the use of contraceptives.

I think this will be easiest shown with an example. The Simpson’s is a wonderful and sharp satire of society. Cleatus the slack jawed yokel has like 12 kids. They are obviously making fun of the poor family with more kids than food. We all know the Simpson’s is always right so I will rest this portion on the argument.

>1. Children resemble their parents

I have seen some really hot girls walking around with really ugly parents. You have too. But I wont really argue this point there is probably some resemblance it is just hidden in things we don’t look at, like knee skin, feet, and shoulder blades.

>just remember we stopped evolution a long time ago and allergies are
>largely caused by our turboclean lifestyle of antibacterial soaps, etc.
>There really wasn't any asthma or allergies 50-100 years ago.

I have heard this theory before. I just have to go with life experience on this one. Perhaps this theory is true, in that case I will have a seizure. First cause by a, "turboclean lifestyle" if anyone has seen my room or living conditions at any point in my life I think they would have to give that I didn't have a "turboclean lifestyle." Even if you go with my parents old house it wasn't that clean. Then assume cleanliness and antibacterial soaps would lead to a lack of exposure that would cause the allergies. I am allergic to Dogs and Mold. Lets cover this, I was born into a family that had dogs. Hence I was always around dogs since the day I was born. Around puberty my body just decides to be allergic to something it has never been without. That makes about as much sense as waking up one day and being allergic to air. (Oxygen gets you high... hehe sorry) Then I mowed laws since i was like 10 and then around puberty because allergic to mold. Specifically the kind of mold that grows on grass. So the clean theory and the scientists that worked so hard on it can suck it.

So I will provide a new theory to fight evolutionism. It will be called I hate allergies and your theory blows. Basically it says that evolution actually picks at random weather to screw a person over or give them benefit and then evolution as a whole laughs it's ass off.

Two topics today... 1st everyone knew she had sex, it is a good thing she admitted it. If it were our government we would have the reports declassified 30 years later. 2nd I am going to black hawk, the dirtcy crappy imitation of vegas.

1:After years of saying she'd wait until she was married to lose her virginity, Britney Spears is acknowledging that she had sex with her ex-boyfriend, Justin Timberlake. "I've only slept with one person my whole life," Well Brittney it is a good thing you came out. Cause i was going to bang you just to prove you have had sex. Now i will do it just to spite the entire male population of the world. Except George W he isn't interested in Brittney. He is too busy thinking of new ways to take Saddam. So Justin I finally have one reason that i can accept your total sell out of a human being.

2: I am going gambling in blackhawk tonight. It is going to be just like swingers except:

a) Not in Vegas
b) I'll win money
c) I will not get a girl like Trey did
d) We won't look near as cool

But it will be exactly like it because i am going to use and abuse the term, "Money" tonight. It will be so money just to say it. I am fucking money for using it. And so on and so forth. Anyways keep the girls at home cause it's guys night out!

VEGAS BABY VEEGAAAAAS!

This is riding down to blackhawk, which is about a hour away. I went there excited with the idea of fun gambling and wild times. I arrived to an elderly day care center as best i could tell. I then traded in $100 for the plastic toy seen above and 6 plastic cups. I guess i was technically gambling, but our state ruins anything except slot machines. The black jack tables are $5 minimum and $5 maximum! What the hell is that. My entire strategy involves changing my bet. Which i couldn't do. So oh well know i have gone and seen and there truly is only one Vegas. I did get free liquor though so i am pretty sure we were all winners. Who's the big winner Mikey's the big winner. At least i was so money all night long.

When I return home tonight I will have to kick Dom. I understand that our house has really begun to be infested by spiders. This is annoying. I originally captured them and threw them outside. Now as the onslaught grows more fierce I have began smashing them with shoes. Last night we all noticed tons of tiny little spiders. I also killed 6 or 7 large spiders in my room alone between 12-1. Dom then started talking about how he hopes we don't have any poisonous spiders. I said that the big once I killed definitely weren't and the little ones didn't look like anything. He responded that baby black widows are little and white like all of the little ones. We then noted how a bunch we killed earlier this week kind of looked like brown recluses.

This led to me to of course start my mind in motion. Which really is never a good thing. Much like camping and thinking of a bear. (for those of you that don’t know I freak out about bear attacks while camping.) So i then would wake up through out the whole night and think I felt something on me and jump and get out of the sheets turn the light on and search the bed for spiders. I must have done this 20 times last night between 4 and 6. So I didn't get much sleep which sucks. So I am now pissed because I will probably develop a huge fear of spiders while sleeping that i have never had before and this will bother me for the rest of my life.

Hmmmmm now if I can just train the spiders and bears to fight each other!

The United States didn't declare war on Iraq because of new evidence of banned weapons, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said on Wednesday. Donald Rumsfeld Rumsfeld said the U.S. declared war because it saw existing evidence of Iraqi arms programs in "a dramatic new light" following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

After these statements Rumfelds then explained how american's actually built the US from abandoned waste. Rumsfeld also admitted that America really was the 2nd coming of christ. I then interviewed Rumsfeld and got him to state, "We wouldn't lie to our whole country if the people weren't so dumb that they will believe it. I mean we can state one thing this week and tell them that it was the Cubans not us next week." Rumsfeld is a TOOL!

Seriously why is it everyone in america is still like this is a good Idea. Everyone first said they have weapons htey know it they can't show proof because that will reveal national secrets. They found nothing and are now stating that it was never about new weapons! Haha we rushed the UN saying that otherwise they would have time to move and hide their WMD. No we really just decided that we hated Saddam after 911. I even doubt that. I think that Bush came to office with the idea that Saddam will die and I will get more Oil. This pisses me off.

CREATIVE genius and crime express themselves early in men but both are turned off almost like a tap if a man gets married and has children, a study says.

But, regardless of age, the great minds who married virtually kissed goodbye to making any further glorious additions to their CV.

Within five years of making their nuptial vows, nearly a quarter of married scientists had made their last significant contribution to history's Hall of Fame.

"Scientists rather quickly desist [from their careers] after their marriage, while unmarried scientists continue to make great scientific contributions later in their lives," says Kanazawa.

Full article from news.com.au

I had always beleived this to be true. I mean i loose alot of creativity and drive to do work if i am in a happy relationship. If I am dating someone or anything i am content to just sit around and watch movies with them. If i am alone i get frustrated just sitting around wasting time and feel like i have to work on some of my projects. So does this mean someone should sell out happiness and love to make a contribution to the world? I still think i would be happier in a relationship. In the the end though we finally have proof that love make syou dumber! So bwhahaha I am smarter than my roommates! hehe

Yesterday was a interesting day. I got calls from some girls i am trying to talk to more. I chilled with a bunch of different friends that seemed to keep coming and going. I partied hard and started watching Gattica (execlent movie) at about 3 in the morning. Got to love those days that never end. Also got a chance to chill in the hot tub again which is nice seeing as it has been to hot to get in it lately.

So what would you do with a million dollars? I am pretty sure i would start my own company and then see if people would pay me for just sitting around and doing stuff i already do. Run a fun website, work on video projects, and do art. If that was my full time job i would finally have time to learn digital audio creation stuff. I would be able to work on videos as wells as get some nice software. Besides that I don't know what all would change there isn't that much I want or need right now.

A friend of mine still parks. I mean as in when he and his girlfriend come home they just sit in the car and make out in front of the house for like an hour. It blows my mind. A comfortable bed or couch is only a minute�s walk away. The claim is if they came inside they would stay up allot later and never leave. Which would be a bad thing when they have things to do in the morning. I don't buy it, in fact I wouldn't even recommend selling it. hehe Well I guess to each his own. I just think it is hilarious it reminds me of highschool stuff. When girls and guys weren't allowed to be alone in the bedroom together. hehe

bobby just sent me this link and i think everyone should enjoy it.

http://home.comcast.net/~bernhard36/honda-ad.html

so take a look at it.

Well i guess this will be my last long entry for a little while since I will be leaving in the morning for Mexico. I did however talk to the people and I should get cell phone reception in mexico, So i will put a few very short entries up while i am there from my phone. Just to connect and send the stuff it will cost me $1.50 every time i update my blog from Mexico so don't expect much to happen. Sadly i won't be checking e-mail there on my device due to the cost. I could do it though which is awesome. So enough with the tech mumbo jumbo. Onward ho with some other stuff.

Well since my roommates have been too busy to get into some serious mischief with me it should be great to get a chance to just hang out with Dom for a week away from any worries or concerns with anything else besides having fun. I am sure he will come back with a nice tan and I will come back wtih some section of my body peeling. That is ok though. I mean just remember you only live once so you might as well die before your to old to remember it. Or something like that.

Anyways here is some stuff from that past and I am hoping that all this kind of stuff and more occurs in mexico. So hope you have a great week and I will be talking to most of you when i get back.

Well it is the morning and we are leaving very soon. So here is one final quick goodbye. I am sure i will loose alot of readers while i hardly post while out of town. That is ok. All of you should should leave a message on this post. So when i get home i have a bunch of fun comments from friends, family, and rando's who stumble onto the site.

Last night i had a friend who was supposed to be somewhere in the midwest, just show up at my door. It was cool to get to see her and get to chat and hang out some. Even though it was a do nothing night where i was just packing.

Final note for those bored while i am gone you can check my site for a ton of content. A bunch of videos, crappy poetry, and various funny projects. So take a look while i am away.

http://www.wastedbrains.com

Adios mi amigos,
Me llamo Domingo (i know it means sunday). Que hora es? Come estas? Y tu? asi, asi. Hasta luego!

This may be the last time i can update we will see how the coverage in mexico. Any ways we get in at like 9 and Dom and I are going out drinking. We are supposed to check out the resort scene tonight. Which means running around and falling in pools. Oh dom got searched going through security...hehe.

They told us to turn off cell phones. I will in a minute I love modern tech! Go mexico!

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Well i am in mexico and we have been drinking, dancing, and playing beach volley ball all the things we love. I mean i was dancing with 2 girls that didnt even no english for a long time one night it was a good time. His sister had her birthday here and that involved drinking flamming shots and dom being hung over until 8 the next night. It was a good time. I have enjoyed it all i write more tomorrow.

Well I guess we are still kicking in mexico. Dom has gotten sick from the water or something. So he isn't feeling so well. I partied way to hard last night so my head feels bad today. We are going to rent a hobbie cat (sailboat) this afternoon which should be cool. I thing today will be pretty calm and we will just chill around the resort. Yesterday we went into town and we meet some local girls and hung out with them for awhile. Traveling with other families is always a little wierd because every family like things a certain way. Trying to figure that out and adjust to that way is always a little hard to do. Mexico is beautiful and I am sitting in front of a computer so for now i must go.

I just read my last post and realized how dumb i sounded. I think i shouldn't post while in a rush. The resort has a computer lab with internet, but it was going to close yesterday. So i only had a few minutes to post anything. Oh well

I guess that Dom's dads girlfriend and daughter brought something down with them. Since then everyone but dom's dad and I have thrown up. I woke up today with a sore throat and very achy muscles which seem to be related to whatever people are getting. That sucks. Oh well being a little sick can't stop me. Today we are going to go sailing and head out somewhere for a nice dinner. We had a really nice dinner on the bay last night. It was fun. Anyways I will be reutrning home tomorrow and I will post some pictures and stuff. Now it is time to run to the beach in hopes of playing beach volleyball. Giddy up.

Well I am back. It was a great trip. It had its ups and downs but in the end it was a great time. Dom and I got to child a whole lot which was cool. Also got to swim in the ocean which is always amazing. I got to just kick away from everything in life and just do what we humans do best. Mess stuff up and wonder why we are here. I met some cool people, I got to know Dom's family much better, and I played beach volleyball. For those of you that don't know me my love of beachvolley ball is right there with computers. I would wake up and play through the worst hang over in the world when i had to. I just love it and wont miss it for any excuse. I would be much more likely to miss a date than a game of beach volleyball.

Some other cool stuff happened and some funny stuff and we have a ton of great pictures but I have to not write about them now because i just got home and i am tired from the week. I never come back from a vacation refreshed I always come back tired because i can sleep at home.

Today was a day to just run errants and take care of all the random stuff that builds up when you leave town for awhile. It was nice to get to see scott and hang with him again. Even though he is currently passed out on my bed behind me and it is only 8:12. Hehe Well he wanted to go to a movie and drink. So i drove and we watched Bad Boyz 2 today. Scott drank so much that he passed out during the movie before it was even over. It was hilarious. So then i took him to get soup from silver mine (a drinking tradition) It was just hilarious to have him that messed up when it was like 6 and no one else was partying. Rock on Scott, I guess he missed not getting to party with us for a week.

Mexico Highlights:

Boogie boarding: something i really hadn't done before. It was easy to catch onto and it was allot of fun. I rode it up into the sand a couple times.

Energy Drinks: This sounds dumb but i love to get them try them and review them. During this trip i found 7 new energy drinks that i had never had before. I had heard of and seen some of them but now i got to try them out. That rocks anyways all the reviews i wrote will be up soon.

Laptop: Hey what can i say i am a geek. I didn't use it much just for movies at night, and during travel. Also so dom could write in his journal while we were away. I guess i also used it to write the energy reviews too. I love my job man free laptop!

Local Girls: Dom and I learned that local girls love us. Twice during the trip did we have local girls approach us, while we were just sitting and talking. It was fun. It also made me feel like a pimp or something. That was quickly put into place upon returning to America.

Dumb thoughts: One day during dinner Dom was chatting with his dad and I had just got back from the bathroom and wasn't involved in the conversation. I began thinking (as always) about something stupid (as most of the time). I was thinking about how while i walk to the bathroom that once i find the girls bathroom i can immediately deduce where the males is. I mean seriously think about it. If your in almost any building all restrooms are set up symmetrical or right next to each other. In airports if you see the womens restroom on one side of the hall it stands to logic that the males is on the other side of the hall. I mean it is something that we don't even think about we just immediately go through. In almost every building on campus if you find a womens restroom and there isn't a males right next to it. It means on the floor above or below in that exact spot there is a male restroom. I never knew how much power my brain had dedicated to quickly deducing restroom locations. hehe

Volleyball: I won a free drink for winning a volleyball tournament.

Drugs: I love Cipro. I take it while in Mexico so i don't get sick if i end up drinking water and i have never had a problem in Mexico. Most other people i know have had a problem before.

Well I guess after posting some pictures at some point this will return to my normal blog ways and stop being a vacation blog.

Returning to work is hard. I mean i come back and i try to work on something i thought i understood pretty well and now all i can do is mess it up. I make each version worse than the previous version. I can't stand working when my mind is just screwing up. So if you have ever had a day where you working is actually having a negative impact on the project then CHEERS!

Well Matt turned 21. The last of the original crew is 21 now. He was away with his parents so we are celebrating wends night in Ft collins. We will hit the bars and get him sloppy as per usual i am sure, So that should be fun. Also i haven't seen Matt or Jesse for awhile. Jesse is out of town though so he will have to wait.

Las Vegas is back on the aug 18th trip that was falling apart is back online and it is cheaper than ever. We already have 5 confirmed going. We are trying to get 8 because that is when they offer the group discount (well 4 and 4). I am pumped about it, but i have spent so much money this summer and made less than last summer. It is bad news. I mean i went on a mexico trip and spent a couple hundred. Now i am home and have to cover rent. Arrrrgggg I really need to make more money. I guess i should quit school and get a job... hehe

Dom and Scott are back to their usual girlfriendy selves. hehe It is still nice to be home when we all see each other some of the time at least. Champ came over last night and for those of you who know Champ is always in philoshopical discussion mode. So we discussed all sorts of stuff. I also made him come out to dinner with me at Red Robin. They have a fake burger that tastes so real that the first time i had it i had to ask three other people (workers) before i was convinced they didn't accidently give me a real burger. Then i still felt kinda sick eating it because it tastes so real. It freaks my body out. So maybe we veggie (quazi-veggie) people don't really want our food to taste that much like meat. Because it is creepy.

Speaking of the quazi-veggie status. I did have some meat while in mexico, but it fit into my little system. It was free range so i am allowed to eat it. It was good i had lobster. I liked it and I devoured it all. So cheers to the day when i can get everything free range and afford it or the price comes down.

I am 2 hours closer to finishing my movie. My computer is rendering for the next hour.

Last night i had a bunch of dreams. I remember most of them too which is cool. None of them were all that special or anything. But i did learn that i am super sarcastic and I mess with people just for the hell of it in my dreams as well as in real life. I find that hilarious, messing with people is such a part of who i am i do it in dreams. In my dream there was a group of people talking about a boat. Then i started asking for a gaint fan powered boat (like from the waterboy or wildthings) they said they had no fan powered boats. I then started telling the sales man how much cooler fan powered boats were and that he should start to stock them. He was trying to talk to all the adults about the boats they did have and i would keep asking questions about fan powered boats. It was hilarious. Anyways Matt's 21 Bday party tonight. That means apple bobbing, pin the tale on the donkey, and hopefully a pinadad!

Chilling and waiting to go out.

I am jacks living fear!

Last night i partied pretty hard for matt's birthday nothing to bad though. I was good enough that i didn't have to go in late to work. I work up and got home all early. Part of that is due to the amazing amount of alarm clocks that begin to go off at his house around 5:15 am. Seriously what kind of job can you have at 5:30 am sunrise photographer. Anyways a good time was had by all. I was orignally going to go back to ft collins tonight but i think i am going to try to call some friends around here instead. Also if no one can really chill tonight i have alot of movie editing just waiting to be done so i can work on some of that. I did as always wear Matt's boxers to go see him. Since it was his birthday i even wore his shirt. (the blue one i printed Matt on) So it was nice to get to bring out the matt party clothes. Matt and I realized that we were all really adults now and we were upset by it. So we got drunk and immature to cure us of any illness that adultism may have caused.

The last of the crew is 21 so look at world we can do about anything. Except rents cars, hotel rooms, have lower insurance, or be considered a responcible adult. Oh well I can vote, drink, gamble, and buy a gun. What else would i need!

I just added 6 reviews of the energy drinks that i found in mexico. So take a look Some of them were pretty good. I also recommend looking at the bomba website. It is pretty cool looking and has a hot topless girl. Why can't american companies have naked people advertise.

energy drink reviews

DENVER -- Mayor John Hickenlooper will earn 25 percent less than his predecessor, and his new appointees have agreed to lower salaries as well.

This lowers his salary to:$92,088

Also all his staff is taking pay cuts. Good job!

I am not saying this man is doing everything right. I am saying that it is nice to see a mayor that see cuts all around because the government doesn't have enough money to pay for programs. Also relizes that he is well enough off. I mean honestly people in goverment usually make more money elsewhere (stocks and such (dirty deals hehe)) Anyways Since i live in colorado this interested me and I have to say it is cool and I am proud of it.

Rock on. Last night was pretty chill we all were around the house but weren't really feeling in to mood to do anything so we just sat around chatted some, went skateboarding for a bit. Played around on the computer. Nothing bit but still entertaining. We decided that we might try to go camping tonight. Which would be pretty cool.

I don't know exactly what happened but the site was down for quite awhile. We are back up now and we didn't loose any data. So Welcome back.

I partied hard both friday and saturday night this weekend. Which is cool. I had fun even though nothing big really happened. I have a early meeting on monday so i will go for now.

Do something today you have always thought about doing but never done.

I know it took me forever but i finally put up some mexico picts. So enjoy..

I have been thinking about a couple of conversations i have had with people in the past about the insane pay differences between certain jobs. I was discussing how it is sick that professional baseball players make WAY more than doctors and that doctors have to worry about liability and the life of patents. People i was talking to said yeah but it is all supply and demand and people are willing to pay enough to allow the players to make that much money. I was just saying that was dumb for a long time. Until i realized that isn't true. They aren't making more because of supply and demand. It is because of government regulation of health care. I mean do you think rich people would pay anything and everything to stay alive if possible. Doctors could charge whatever people could or couldn't afford. They could sell new kidneys and livers to the highest bidder. Things like this aren't allowed because health care is regulated.

Now i am not saying that it shouldn't be. It would be horrible if life only went to the highest bidder. At the same time if considerably more worthwhile jobs are going to be regulated to maintain a tolerable cost. There should be some form of regulation for unnecessary frivolous things like sports. The players and owners could have a high tax. Or ticket and salary caps could be introduced. It just seems messed up to me that a dick like Jose Canseco will always make more than doctors that save lives. This is what our government considers good business regulation? If i was a doctor i would charge all athletes INSANE rates. Such as $500,000 to write them a prescription. Hmm interesting maybe medicine could be done on a sliding scale like taxes. You pay a doctor a percent of your worth for services... hehe probably not a good idea but this world is a wacky one sometimes.

The rough draft of my movie is now done. The length of the film currently sits at 21 minutes. We will see if it ends up getting shorten to 20 minutes it just depends if i feel certain points are dragging. So i am hoping to have the final version done in about 2 weeks. At that time i will post the video here. I will also be having a world priemer party for my movie when it is done. I am pretty happy with how it is turnin out. Yes there are a few things i wish i could reshoot. I have a couple things that just didn't work out as hoped. I like the film alot over all though. So wish me luck on editing because i am sure final touch ups will take forever. I edited film for 5 1/2 hours yesterday. I doubt i will do anything tonight. Instead i will try to work on my social life a bit. hehe

I am at work. I am currently thinking about how the newspapers always say coalition forces. I mean coalition forces are all americans and then like John from Great Brit. He probably doesn't even get a gun. He just carries their flag and tries not to get shot by all the americans. I wonder how many people in the US really think that coalition forces are countries all over the world fighting along our side.

Now some of you might have the crazy idea in my head that i should be working while i am at work. Well my brain is tired and i need a break and i am eating lunch so suck it.

I am excited this project i am finishing up used a base opensource web crawler. I added a ton of functions and improved it allot and added some automation and filtering to it. Which rules. So Now i am contributing the code back to the opensource project. I am happy because it will be the first project i have really been able to contribute something worth while. I am helping change opensource. Hence i am happy... Am i really to much of a geek for my own good? I think i might be. Oh well i will make lots of money and marry a hot gold digger. Keep my guy friends for intellectual stimulation. hehe

This is the problem with being me. Even if your tired and you try to go to bed early to catch up on sleep. You can never count on a good night of sleep. It is 4:30 and I am still awake because i can't sleep. I have just layed and bed and rolled over like 3000 times. So now i will be even more tired tomorrow than i was today. Does this mean i will sleep well tomorrow night. Probably not. And the trend will continue until i am so tired that i sleep under my desk at work. arggg....

Who knows how many of the people out there care about this part of my life, but i am making really good progress on dead awake. I finished with the second rough draft of the film. At this rate it could be done in the next 3 or 4 days. So that means ia m ever closer to getting to have my world priemer of my movie at my house. I will have to get it all on a tape and watch it on our big screen and with our sound system to see if there are any big more noticable flaws.